[Asharq al-Aswat] In the audio recording by Sheikh Ibrahim al Rubaish, a wanted Saudi member of Al Qaeda thought to be in Yemen, in which he commented on the failed assassination attempt on Prince Mohammed Bin Naif, al Rubaish spoke highly of the operation, and explained the motives behind it and attacked the Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs and the head of the war on terrorism, Prince Mohammed Bin Naif.
What was most significant and new about his speech was his reference to those who condemned the attack such as Saudi preachers and religious figures and journalists, accusing them of lying and corrupting "jihad". He concluded his speech by saying that those who managed to reach Prince Mohammed, the head of the war on terrorism, are capable of reaching whoever criticizes "Al Qaeda" so they should take heed. The speech was an explicit threat to frighten whoever dares criticize the organisation.
There is no need to further comment on the image of journalists and authors who are devils in the eyes of most fundamentalists and are often considered agents of the West or of their own ruling regimes rather than people with their own opinions or supporters of freedom. They are considered tools against virtue and against the people of the truth -- i.e. the fundamentalist currents of course.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama.
Some initial commentary has called the award unprecedented and wondered why the committee would give President Obama the award when he "hasn't done anything yet."
But anyone who thinks this award is unprecedented hasn't been paying attention.
The Nobel Committee gave South African Bishop Desmond Tutu the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his leadership efforts to abolish apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid wasn't fully abolished in South Africa until 1994. The committee could have waited until after apartheid was abolished to say, "Well done!" But the point of the award was to help bring down apartheid by strengthening Bishop Tutu's efforts. In particular, everyone knew that it was going to be much harder for the apartheid regime to crack down on Tutu after the Nobel Committee wrapped him in its protective cloak of world praise. So you're REALLY a racist if you criticize Obama now. World praise sure didn't stop the Soviet government from totally screwing over Andrei Sakharov Kept the Rooskies from killing him ...
That's what the Nobel Committee is trying to do for Obama now. It's giving an award to encourage the change in world relations that Obama has promised, and to try to help shield Obama against his domestic adversaries. The committee is well aware that history is contingent and that Obama might fail. It knows very well that the same country that elected Obama also gave the world George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. That's pretty much what I figured, a naked power play. I appreciate the honesty, though.
The initial steps that Obama has taken are already under fierce attack. Under Bush, this was called 'dissent'. Attack from the press? No. Attacks from television news? Nope. Attacks from conservatives, yew betcha, and if Bob, here, thinks the Nobel Peace prize will blunt criticism from conservatives, he ain't paying attention.
The Obama administration has now recognized that the Afghan Taliban are not a threat to the United States and that the United States can live with the Afghan Taliban playing a role in the government of Afghanistan. But right-wing forces in the military, Congress, think tanks and the media are denouncing these moves toward sanity as surrender. They want a full-out Vietnam against the Taliban. Not sure what this has to do with the NPP. It means if you leave the battlefield to an armed and hostile enemy more than willing to do harm to your allies, it is, by definition, surrender, and one hundred Nobel Peace prizes each and every year the for next 100 years will not change that dynamic.
Vietnam? Somebody is just throwing bad words around with no idea of what they mean.
Yes but it's one of their most favorite words ...
The Obama administration has begun its promised diplomatic engagement with Iran. Of course, as every honest person knew, real engagement meant de-emphasizing the unachievable demand that Iran end its enrichment of uranium and instead focusing on achievable demands like opening Iranian enrichment facilities more fully to UN inspections and greater international oversight over the enriched uranium that Iran has already produced. Here also, the "endless war" right-wing is trying to undermine Obama. Our way of thinking is the only way of thinking that honest people follow. Remember, dissent is racism.
In giving this award, the Nobel Committee is telling these right-wing forces to back off. And it's sending a message of encouragement to those Americans who put Obama in office:
"Showing signs of significant improvement. Keep up the good work." Again, pretty much what I thought it was. The Peace Prize isn't about peace, it's just a "we really (really) like you" from the international transnationalist elite.
I don't know Truthout, but the point about immunity from criticism, in certain circles at least, is a sharp one.
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What it means is simple: the Nobel Committee wants to tie Bambi's hands. After all, a man who just won the peace prize can't launch drones against the Taliban. He can't put another 40K troops into Afghanistan. He can't keep troops in Iraq. It wouldn't be 'peaceful'.
This is a ploy by the elitists and internationalists to influence our foreign policy, and not in a good way.
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Tutu, the original 'Liberation Theologist.' He and Barry are two peas in one pod.
"Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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The precedent is Nelson Mandela, who was a convicted terrorist, guilty of participating in making and setting bombs that killed several people. Which incidentally he has never denied.
Its all part of the transnational Left's reality denial.
Obama = Nonentity, who has achieved nothing, except to buy political office with money from murky sources
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IMO, its good news. It won't make Obama adore himself anymore. And it won't make pro-Civilization forces (it's not just America's fight) oppose him any less.
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The only reason this has any impact is the latent europhilism that still nags America. Our forefathers either left or were thrown out of the place - for a reason. It is debased. It is a dead end. The number of graves of our great-grandfathers and grandfathers in Europe are monuments to the abject failure there. The problem we face is the worship by self appointed elite governing caste for it. It manifests itself in academia, the arts, and in the coastal metro areas. All of which are driving us into our own cul-de-sac of history.
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Congratulations to PRESIDENT OBAMA on his Nobel prize. The rest of the world world is realizing the enormous change possible now that the previous regime has been repudiated. This award is a vote of confidence and support for his efforts.
So true, play4keeps. We in America have become increasingly aware of exactly what half of us voted into office. And not we alone; President Sarkozy of France has developed his own opinion, as have Prime Ministers Brown, Putin (or is he President these days? He keeps switching, and I just can't keep up), Merkel, Klaus, Netanyahu, Presidents Abbas, Karzai and Ahmadinejad, King Abdullah etc ibn Saud... of course our young president has been highly praised by Castro, Chavez, and Moammar Qadaffy called him "my son" while speaking at the UN... And so we can judge the worth of those who praise our awarded president, Obama.
Lionel Graviger9655 dear, it is so kind of you to check in from Prince William County, VA, that haven of the great and the good, to share with us your innermost thoughts. Your job is not politically connected, I do most fervently hope.
hat tip No Pasaran
The most popular headline at the Real Clear Politics website the other day was: "Is Obama Becoming A Joke?" With brilliant comedic timing, the very next morning the Norwegians gave him the Nobel Peace Prize.
...Fortunately, the Nobel Committee understands that President Obama's accomplishments are no laughing matter. So they gave him the Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
I assumed this was a reference to his rip-roaring success in winning the Olympic Games for Rio, but as it turns out the deadline for Nobel nominations was way back on February 1st.
Obama took office on January 20th.
...President Obama is now the fastest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in history. Alas, the extraordinary efforts of those first 12 days are already ancient history.
...There's something almost quaintly vieux chapeau about the Nobel decision, as if the hopeychangey bumper stickers were shipped surface mail to Oslo and only arrived last week. Everywhere else, they're peeling off: The venerable lefties at Britain's New Statesman currently have a cover story on "Barack W Bush".
"Obamas priorities lie not in the Hindu Kush but in America: Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?"
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This award is like a one-week on the job high school student employee getting the Employee of the Month Award and the CEO says the kid came up with some ideas yet implemented but may show results and everyone in the company asks WTF and becomes alienated and resentful. Using the Noble's reasoning, let's give the award for physics to a person who says that they will make gasoline out of water.
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This award is like a one-week on the job high school student employee getting the Employee of the Month Award and the CEO says the kid came up with some ideas yet implemented but may show results and everyone in the company asks WTF and becomes alienated and resentful. Using the Noble's reasoning, let's give the award for physics to a person who says that they will make gasoline out of water.
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Congratulations to PRESIDENT OBAMA on his Nobel prize. The rest of the world world is realizing the enormous change possible now that the previous regime has been repudiated. This award is a vote of confidence and support for his efforts.
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Best line in the Unintentionally Truthful category by an Obamatron was the comment at MSN that Obama deserved the award because he turned our nation from an evil cowboy loner into a "collaborator."
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